America's FDA approves yet another drug

I am not sure but FDA approval doesn't, as far as I know, mean easy accessibility. Health care in the USA is great if you have money, not great if you don't. ObamaCare may not be a perfect solution but was motivated by a notion of a basic standard of universal health care, which I would have thought any democracy would want. ObamaCare is of course under extreme pressure. Subsidised medicine means that the state pays a significant difference. All budgets have to be accounted for, so not everything is possible. In health that means you must either have the wisdom of Solomon or a very high level of bloody mindedness. We would all like the medications we need to be subsidised and easily available. I benefited from BCNA's advocacy for the wider use of herceptin, for which I am grateful. Choosing what gets publicly paid for and what doesn't, at least yet, is a nightmare that I am glad I don't have to be responsible for.